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Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: The budget is about the people and the country. We will stand over it and attempt to implement these decisions with care, compassion and consideration and in the best way possible.

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: We have protected the majority of allowances paid under the social protection code. I have given details of the increased figure of €20 million and indicated where it will be spent next year.

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: I was in Phibsboro last Saturday with Deputy Paschal Donohoe when I met some of Deputy Gerry Adams's supporters on the street who were handing out leaflets attacking the Labour Party, but these supporters were not able to answer any question about any of the issues mentioned on the leaflets regarding the fantasy economics in which Sinn Féin was engaged. The Deputy has made a disgraceful...

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Gerry Adams knows very little about taxation matters if he makes a comment like the one he has just made. However, I will not go back over history to hear the Deputy expound on many elements of the truth. It ill behoves him to talk about the raw emotion of women, in particular, having regard to some of the incidents that occurred in his lifetime and with which he was associated,...

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: I would not believe all that I read in the newspapers.

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy's acceptance of newspaper reports as the truth is far removed from reality.

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: The position is that a number of weeks before the budget was presented by the Minister for Finance, Deputy Martin and others put forward the proposition that the old age pension was going to be cut-----

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----that the travel allowance was going to be cut, that the electricity allowance was going to be cut-----

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----and that the half-rate carer's allowance and the bereavement grant were going to go.

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: This budget is not about any particular party; it is about our people and our country.

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: The mess that was left for us to clean up requires difficult decisions that have an impact on people's lives. Nobody denies that, but the point is that we have to make choices in a situation like this because our country will never be right unless we put order on our public finances and restore our economy to good health. In that sense the Government set out with a deliberate decision to...

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy could refer his words to his own actions, with his inarticulate drivel and his untruthful and hypocritical comments about the property tax, which he signed up to but does not want introduced yet. In the middle of a children's referendum he circulated leaflets in his constituency stating it was the wrong time to do something he signed on for and designed himself.

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: As I pointed out, the carer's strategy was agreed and published by the Minister of State at the Department of Health in conformity with what the carers themselves expressed as the principal issues.

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: The estimated expenditure in 2012 on carers is more than €771 million, with €509 million being spent on carer's allowance, €24 million on carer's benefit, €135 million on the respite care grant and €103 million on the domiciliary care allowance. That represents an increase of more than €20 million on expenditure in the carer area compared to 2011. More...

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: I do not accept the Deputy's question about unpicking elements of the budget. His attack on the Labour Party is utterly hypocritical and opportunistic. He is under pressure from his colleagues on the far side of the House.

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: He chose to pick on the Labour Party.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Constitutional Convention (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: The 2012 estimate for the Constitutional Convention is €300,000 and expenditure up to end November 2012 was €140,390. The estimate for 2013 is €948,000.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Public Services (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: The focus of my Department is to ensure that Government policy is progressed across the whole of Government and it has one key programme which is to support me as Taoiseach and the Government. As no new services have been introduced by my Department since March 2011, the question of testing for external service delivery has not arisen. My Department makes extensive use of shared services...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Strategy Statements (11 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: The focus of my Department is to ensure that Government policy is progressed across the whole of Government and it has one key Programme which is to support the Taoiseach and the Government. The Department's Strategy Statement is aligned to the Government's key priorities and policies, including major policy documents such as the Programme for Government 2011-2016, the EU / IMF Programme and...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: In 2016 we will be the best small country in the world to do business in.